Word: self
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...faith. Mother Ann insisted on strict communal life, with all property held in common, equality of the sexes combined with absolute celibacy, and simplicity and directness in all things. "Be hand-minded," she would urge. "Put your hands to work and your hearts to God." Soon there were 19 self-contained communities scattered through New England, New York, Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana. Every Shaker practiced a craft with particular diligence, producing everything except babies. They have now almost died out for lack of new recruits...
...complete life may be one ending in so full an identification with the notself that there is no self left...
...comparatively second-drawer Berenson, but they will live. They reveal an elaborate, prickly mind, of melancholy cast. Berenson's chief object was to lose himself in what he saw and liked. Brought up on Walter Pater and inspired by Charles Eliot Norton at Harvard, he practiced and preached self-immolation on the altar of beauty...
...also wrought changes in his personal life. He has less time to spend with his wife and four children, putter in his rose garden. He spends evenings poring over work in the library of his twelve-room house in suburban Winnetka, Ill. His life has become almost as self-centered as Avery's on the contents of a secret closet in his Chicago office. The closet contains charts of the company and the U.S. economy. In Avery's time the projections all went down; now all the lines go sharply...
Although DeGaulle has declared for the principle of self-determination by the Algerians he has made clear that he favors local autonomy for the country, not independence...